Hook and eye tape



June 10,

L. ROCKE HOOK AND EYE TAPE Filed March 30. 1927 Patented June 10, 1930 UNITED STATES LOUISROCKE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CITY, NEW YORK,

LONG ISLAND SSIGNOR TO WALDES-KOH-I-NOOR, INC., 0]? A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK- HOOK AND EYE TAPE Application filed March 30, 1927. Serial No. 179,408.

This invention relates to separable garment fasteners and particularly to that type thereofknown as hook and eye tape. In thegarment industry it has been the practice to use hooks and eyes secured at spaced intervals along a strip ortape of material which is sewed to the garment. Two general types of such tape have been used, one known as riveted, and the other as concealed, hook and eye tape. The riveted tape is characterized by the use of metallic rivets or grommets which pass through the tape material and the securing eyes of the fasteners for attaching them securely to the tape. As heretofore constructed the concealed type is characterized by the use of two strips of material one of which strips is approximately half the width of the other and is sewed along one of its longitudinal'edges to the wider strip along the longitudinal center line thereof, thereby providing a pair of flaps along the lower half of the tape and a single thickness along the top half thereof. In the sewing of these two strips, gaps are left in the stitching to provide apertures through which the bill of the hook and the eye are passed in such a way that the .co-opelrating looking or latching parts of the fasteners are exposed and extend transversely of the tape in juxtaposition to the single thickness of the wider strip at the upper half thereof, while the remaining parts of the fasteners are located in the space be tween, and are hidden or concealed by, the flaps. The fasteners are held secured to the tape either by making them a tight fit within the apertures or gaps left in the stitching thereof or are sewed directly to one or both of the flaps.

While both riveted and concealed tape have been used extensively for years, both types have objectionable features, among which the following may be noted: With the riveted type, the piercing of the holes for the large grommets used weakens the tape to such an extent that when a strong pull is exerted on the fasteners they frequently pull out tearing with them a section of the tape. The concealed type is also subject to the objection that the fasteners pull out and the further objection that the necessity for sewing the tapes view of an eye tape;

portion of the hooktape;

involves extra labor costs and the use of special machinery to perform the intermittent or gap stitching required.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a new and improved construction for a concealed hook and eye tape, and also for the fasteners intended to be incorporated therewith, by means of which the obj ectionable features above set forth will be obviated.

A further object is to provide a new and improved construction of such a hook and eye tape, the manufacture and assembly of which will be much simpler than that of the types heretofore used, and as a result the use of special expensive machinery will not be required and the cost of production will be lower.

Another object is to struction for the tape, single one piece provide a novel conwhich is woven as a fabric of much greater strength and durability than the sewed tape heretofore used.

A further object is to provide a new and simple construction for the fasteners whereby they will also have greater strength and durability while at the same time they will be of a neat and attractive appearance.

These and other objects will appear more fully from the following more detailed description and by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof in which Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of a hook tape constructed in accordance with the principles of my invention; Fig. 2 is a similar Fig. 3 is an enlarged front elevation of a Fig. 4 is a section on the line t l of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3 of the eye tape; Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5; Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a hook fastener in its flat condition before the bill portion thereof is bent downwardly; Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fi 7 of the hook fastener in its final form and Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the eye fastener.

As shown in the drawings, 1 provide a tape 10 woven to form an upper half 12 of a single thickness and a pair of lower flaps 13,14; each of which is formed integral with the upper half 12 in the weaving of the tape. The

- ing of the tape, 40

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provided, located atspaced intervals along the tape according to the desired spacing of the fasteners. These aperturesy15 are'also woven in the tape, that is to say, when the tape is woven in the loom the apertures are formed in a manner certain stitches,,so .as to leave a slot or'slit :which defines an aperture of the required di-- mensions to permit the passage therethrough of the securingor inter-engaging portions of the fasteners which are to be associated with the tape. In the Weaving of the tape to form such apertures, that portion of the tape material which bounds the apertures may, if desired, consist of warp threads of. extra strength or thickness The use of warp threads of extra strength'or thickness is, however, not absolutely essential, as the required strength may be'secured by properly selecting the threads used for the weaving of the plain or uninterrupted portions of the tape and by the interlocking mesh. thereof formed by the weaving. By forming the tape as a single piece of woven material having for the upperhalf portion a single thickness of material and having intermittently interwoven therewith the two flaps which form the lower portion, and furthermore by forming the apertures through which. the securing portions of the fasteners project in the weavthe final product secured is of much greater strength: and durability,,and also of much moreattractiveappearance than when-the two lower flap portions are formed by sewing in the manner heretofore used In order to overcome fully, and to prevent any pulling out of the fastener devices, such-as occurs with the concealed type tape heretofore used, when a heavy strain or pull is placed upon the fasteners, I

construct both the hook fasteners 16 and the by punching, stamping orv eye fasteners 17 otherwise fashioning such fasteners from sheet metal material. shown most clearly inFig. 7, the hook fastener lfiisfirst stamped in the form of a flat substantially T- shaped member which consists of a tongue 16 the. bill of the to provide the material: for hook and a; cross bar 1'6 which extends at right angle to the tongue 16*. The cross bar 16 isprovided with asmall.struck-upprotuberance 16 located substantially in alignment with the longitudinal center line of the tongue 16 The;v tongue 16 is then bent backwardly towards the cross bar 16 to form the bill of the hook which bill extends substantially in parallelism with a space a short well knownin the weaving art by dropping or otherwise omitting bill portions of the hook portions of the eye fasteners through t e apertures so as to leave the bill portions only I hidden by such flaps.

semble the fasteners and tape by machinery,

, serted through each aperture a hook or an eye fastener which can be fed formed by pressing such portion inwardly thereby defining a pair of upwardly pro jecting webs 1 6 which act as reenforcing ribs for the closed end of the hook bill.

The eye fasteners 17 are also formed from sheet metal as above set forth and each eye fastener consists of an eye portion l7" and a cross bar 17, the latter being similar in construction to the cross bar 16' except that the protuberance 16 is omitted. Thev eye'portions 17 of'the eye fasteners aremade somewhat greater in width than the slots or apertures'15 formed fastener has a closely adjacent in the tapes, and each eye reduced neck portion 17 to the cross bar 17 the dimensions of the neck portions being such that U such portionsfit The corners of the cross bars 16 and 17" are rounded sufliciently to prevent cutting, tearing, or. piercing, of the tape.

After the er's are inserted in the apertures 15 in any suitable way, as for example, by pushing the fasteners or the e e and the eye portions only exposed while the cross bars 16 and 17 respectively, are located between the flaps 13, 14 and are concealed or If it is desired to asvery simple apparatus will serve to perform such function, for example, the tape can be fed, preferably intermittently, while maintained under tension and, with the fia 14 extending at right angles to the upper half 12 of the tape, a small hook can then be into engage either by any suitable means to a position adjacent to the res ective aperture into which it is to be inserted whereupon the feeding hook will engage with the bill of the'hook fastener or the eye portion of the eye fastener, as the case may be, and thereafter will be moved 7 backwardly through the aperture to pull the I fastener into position and ment with the tape.

The manner in which the fasteners are caused to be assembled is immaterial as this in locked engagesnugly within the apertures tape has been woven, the fastenmay be done in any suitable way, for example, it may be found preferable to .leave the tongues 16* of the hookfasteners in the fiat condition shown in Fig. 7 until after such tongues are inserted into the apertures of the tion shown in Fig. 8.

, tape and then to bendthe. tongue to thep ierally therefrom,

It Will be readily apparent that a tape in which the flaps 13, 14 and apertures 15 are formed in the weaving can be made of any desired strength according to the strength of the threads employed in such weaving and that such a tape will have far superior wearing qualities and greater strength than the sewed tapes heretofore used. It will also be seen that the construction of the fastening members of sheet metal stampings will also result in the production of much stronger fasteners than when the fasteners are bent or formed from wire such as heretofore used for such devices, as obviously there can be no collapsing or bending of the sheet metal as a result of a pull upon the fasteners that would enable the fasteners to be pulled through the apertures.

I claim:

1. A separable fastening device consisting of a tape comprising a single thickness of material having at the lower end thereof a pair of flaps separated from each other at their outer edges and integral with said single thickness at their inner edges, one of said fi aps being provided adjacent to its inner edge with a plurality of apertures, said single thickness, flaps and apertures being formed in the weaving of said tape, and a plurality of separablefasteners secured in interlocking engagement with the apertures of said tape, each stamped from a single piece of sheet metal and formed to provide a solid cross bar, and an extension projecting laterally therefrom, said extension being provided with means for being detaohably engaged with a co-operating fastener, and said fasteners being secured in interlocking engagement with said tape with said extension projecting through said apertures and with said solid cross bar located between and concealed by said flaps.

2. A separable fastening device consisting of a tape comprising a single thickness of material, a pair of flaps separated from each other at their outer edges and integral with said single thickness at their inner edges, one of said flaps being provided adjacent to its inner edge with a plurality of apertures, and a plurality of separable fasteners in 1nterlocking engagement with the apertures of said tape, each stamped from a single piece of sheet metal and formed to provide a solid cross bar, and an extension projecting latsaid extension being provided with means for being detachably engaged with a cooperating fastener, and said fasteners being secured in interlocking engagement with said tape with said extension projecting through said apertures and with said solid cross bar located between and concealed by said flaps.

In testimony whereof my hand.

I have hereunto set LOUIS ROGKE. 

